Director, Product

Role overview Lead end-to-end product delivery for complex automotive and mobility engagements, connecting discovery and strategy to buildable requirements, launch, and iteration. You’ll work closely with engineering, design, research, client teams, and external partners, taking an embedded role in product organizations and accounting for platform constraints and structured industry program timelines.

Responsibilities - Lead product and technical discovery, clarifying user needs, business requirements, platform limits, and integration considerations. - Conduct automotive and mobility market, competitive, and user research, translating findings into requirements teams can build from. - Create and maintain phased roadmaps that connect strategic goals with technical realities and program schedules. - Prioritize backlogs and make scope trade-offs with clients, partners, and engineering leads. - Define release criteria, quality measures, and post-launch feedback loops; use results from earlier phases to improve later work. - Produce detailed product documentation, stories, and acceptance criteria, and lead sprint routines and cross-functional coordination. - Serve as the main product contact for external partners, contribute product expertise to business development, and improve delivery workflows, including through appropriate AI use.

Requirements - 8+ years in product management, including ownership of complex engagements from discovery through delivery. - Strong knowledge of agile delivery and product artifacts such as epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, functional specifications, and process documentation. - Ability to work credibly with engineering leads on CMS platforms, system architecture, API documentation, and integration planning. - Experience with market analysis and user research, and skill translating findings into clear requirements. - Strong communication with clients, partners, and senior stakeholders, including on scope, progress, timelines, and difficult trade-offs. - Command-level fluency with AI tools for research, prototyping, documentation, requirements analysis, and workflow, with careful human review where precision matters. - Experience mentoring junior colleagues, contributing to technical scoping, and collaborating across disciplines.

Nice to have - Automotive product and interface experience, including taking at least one automotive product to launch and familiarity with OEM and Tier-1 programs. - The stated compensation range is $170,000–$200,000 across multiple levels; actual compensation depends on experience, skills, budget, and location.